Should Wizard Hit Mommy?

In the evenings & for Saturday naps Bill told his daughter Jo, aged four, the same story with slight variations One day he altered the story radically in order to demonstrate a principal of social behavior. This time the story told of a smelly skunk with whom none of the animals would play. A wizard changed his bad smell to a smell of roses. Then all the animals played with him, but his mother got angry because he didn't smell as usual, & she went to the wizard & had the normal smell brought back. The child didn't like this story. She thought the mother should be restrained from making the wizard give him back the bad old smell.